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The Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords students
three basic rights:
- The right to inspect and review their education records.
- The right to have some control over the disclosure of their education records.
- The right to seek to amend incorrect education records.
FERPA applies to all institutions that receive funds administered
by the Secretary of Education. FERPA applies to the education
records of individuals, regardless of age, who are currently or who
have been in attendance in postsecondary institutions.
Education records are those records which are directly related to a
student and are maintained by an institution or a party acting for
the institution.
Except under conditions specified in the Act (see
FERPA
annual notification), institutions may not disclose information
contained in a student's education records without the student's
written permission to any third party, including parents.
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